The five-minute ten meter dash through register lines is reduced to a near sprint with the rise of self-checkout. A grocery run is reduced to a short walk to the front door and maybe a quick “thank you.” Day-long shopping trips for holiday gifts are reduced to a cozy 45-minute spree done at one website...

Yes, we are still talking about the Squirrel Hill shooting. We don’t think you will, but you can scold us if you’d like. The last thing we want to accomplish is repetitive reporting. We don’t want to beat the proverbial dead horse, but we know when we need to keep talking about something.
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Nov. 6, was a day to be heard, a day to vote. The battle rages all day long from sunup to sundown. The results? A draw.
Democrats win the House of Representatives and Republicans hold control of the Senate. Our congress is divided and we are in a standstill. I believe that for the next two years no ...

In response to the Squirrel Hill shooting, I’ve seen a lot of people come together. I’m sure people may not want to hear about the Tree of Life tragedy anymore - it is certainly a gruesome topic. Let’s chat about something that has given me some perspective these past few weeks: sports.
I am...

Oct. 27 was a tragic day for the Jewish community, for the Squirrel Hill community and for the Pittsburgh community. I wish I could go back in time, go back and hope I could stop the monster preparing to destroy lives. But I can’t, so how do we deal with the aftermath? How do we get through these hard...

In the middle of an extremely contentious and volatile midterm election season, it’s important to remember one simple idea - you can still associate with people who have different political views than your own.
Following the 2016 election, the country was divided by political differences. So m...

Yet another act of mass violence. Not as close to home this time for me, but close enough. Something that I had hoped that I would never have to experience. A shooting in your hometown hits so much harder than one you hear about on the news. It’s hard to take it all in.
I live about two minutes awa...

The second amendment comes under a lot of scrutiny. The far right claims it as an American bonus gift, while the far left treats it like heresy. Needless to say, guns are a hot topic in this day in age. However, far too often do we see them coming into the spotlight for the wrong reason. Now before al...

As we sit down to write this editorial, the day’s copy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sits propped in front of us. It is inspiration we are looking for - for sanity. For clarity. For the right words to say. The harder and harder we try, the more we realize there aren’t any; yet there are so, so many...

A friend of mine whom I’ve never known to have an interest in politics recently revealed to me she voted for Jill Stein in the 2016 presidential election.
“Oh, what drew you to her?” I asked, surprised at her choice. I didn’t know many Stein supporters, and the ones I did were far more politically...

Attending a college in a downtown metropolitan area can be exciting, immersive and filled with opportunity.
But it can also carry risk.
Last week, a group of freshman students were attacked by an outside group while on a class field trip. This incident, among many, has shown that a city campus c...

In September 2017, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was practically “ordered to shut up” after he criticized Saudi Arabia’s classification of Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. After moving to the US, he published an article with the Washington Post that detailed his outrage.
Ever si...